Upholstery-brush



(No Model) J. A. ILLINGWORTH.

UPHOLSTERY BRUSH. I No. 275,827. Patented Apr. 17,1883" UNITED STATES PATENT GEFICE.

JAMES A. ILLINGWORTH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

UPHOLSTERY-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofiLetters Patent No. 275,827, dated April 17, 1883.

Application filed October 30, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES A. ILLINGWORTH, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Upholstery-Brush, of which the following is a specification and description.

The objectof my invention is to provide a brush adapted to reach and remove the dust and dirt which accumulate in the recesses and around the buttons in tied upholstery; and I accomplish this by the mechanism substantially as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure I is a perspective view of an upholstery-brush made according to my invention. Fig. II is a longitudinal section of the same at its apex; and Fig. III is a sectional view of the brush, showing its application to use in cleaning upholstery.

In the drawings, 1 represents the handle and body of the brush, which may be made of any desired material-such as wood, papierinach, hard rubber, or any other suitable substance-int0 which are inserted the bristles 2, which are to form the brush proper, these bristles being inserted at and all around the end of the body 1, and secured in any wellknown manner, so that they may extend out from the end of the body in the direction substantially as shown in Fig. II, so that they may operate efl'ectually when the end of the brush is placed against any fabric to be cleaned. At the end of the brush, in line with the body 1, a concave recess, 3, is made therein, either by cutting the bristles out at their ends to give that concave form, or by securing the bristles in the end of the body 2 of such relative length each to the others as to give that concave recessed form. This concave recess 3 is of such form as to approximately fit the exposed surface of the ordinary buttons with which upholstery is usually tied or fastened, with substantially the same press ure'of each bristle against the button when the end of the brush isplaced in the recess of the upholstery to clean it out, while the bristles immediately surrounding this concave recess press with substantially the same pressure against the fabric in the recess of the upholstery to clean it.

In cleaning the dust and dirt from the huttoned recesses in upholstered furniture the end of the brush is placed in a recess, with the button therein in the concave recess 3 in the end of the brush, and the latter is rotated to and fro by the handle 1, which may have a cross-piece, 4, attached for convenience, if desired, and a few rotary movements of the brush willthoronghly clean the dirt and dust from the button and from the fabric within the recess surrounding it in a manner that could not be accomplished by any other means.

The straight portion of the brush may be used for cleaning the plainer surfaces of the upholstered fabric in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is An improved brush for cleaning upholstery,

consisting of the body 1, having the bristles JAMES A. ILLINGWORTH.

Witnesses:

T. A. OURTIs, CHAS. H. W001). 

